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Monday, April 28, 2025

Trump-proofing Canada means ending our dependence on SWIFT

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It's time to stop staring into the headlights and respond to the fact that Canada is being eyed as a choice morsel by a much larger pred...
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Friday, April 11, 2025

If it's crypto it's not money laundering

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It appears to be official now. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, when illicit activity is routed via crypto infrastructure, then ...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Why sanctions didn’t stop Russia's Garantex from using stablecoins

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Stablecoins, a new type of financial institution, are unique in two ways. First, they use decentralized databases like Ethereum and Tron to ...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Canadian banks as U.S. hostages?

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BMO Financial Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Blink twice if you're in danger, BMO. Donald Trump has said he wants to use "economic...
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Friday, March 14, 2025

Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa

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We're all busy doing our best to boycott U.S. products. I can't buy Special K cereal anymore, because it's made in the U.S. by K...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

What do you do with memecoins? Apparently you collect them, says the SEC

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I have no idea if memecoins like dogecoin and fartcoin should be legally defined as securities, and thus come under the purview of securitie...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Ending the penny won't lead to more nickels

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Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing the penny because it is unprofitable, costing 3.69 cents to produce each one. In re...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The end of El Salvador's bitcoin payments experiment

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Back in 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to require its citizens to use bitcoin for payments. Last month, four years...
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